Title	Mary Scales oral history
Creator	Scales, Mary Caruthers
Contributor(s)	Rowland, Betty, interviewer
Publisher	Albert Gore Research Center
Date	2000-08-25
Coverage	1960-1969 1970-1979 1980-1989
Description	Excerpts of an oral history with Mary Scales, the first full-time African-American professor at MTSU. Scales shares her memories of campus life as an African-American graduate student at MTSU during the 1960s, the MTSU Upward Bound program, race relations, and her experiences as an MTSU mathematics professor
Table of Contents	1. Scales' experiences with Upward Bound and as MTSU's first African-American full-time professor -- 2. Scales' experiences on an Interracial Committee during the 1970s -- 3. Scales' experiences as Alpha Kappa Alpha advisor
Audio Clips	(clip 1) http://content.mtsu.edu/cdm4/audiofiles/scales/scales1.mp3 ; (clip 2) http://content.mtsu.edu/cdm4/audiofiles/scales/scales2.mp3 ; (clip 3) http://content.mtsu.edu/cdm4/audiofiles/scales/scales3.mp3
Subject-Keyword	Upward Bound
Subject-LCSH	College preparation programs African American college teachers African Americans Race relations Segregation Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Middle Tennessee State University
Geographic Location	Murfreesboro, TN
Language	eng
Type	Still image Sound
Format	audio/mp3
Genre	Photograph Oral history
Copyright status	Copyright may or may not belong to MTSU Reproduced with permission of the Albert Gore Research Center, MTSU
Conditions for use	May be used freely by individuals for research, teaching, and personal use under the fair use provisions of the Copyright Act Credit: Property of the Albert Gore Research Center, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN 37132 For other uses contact The Albert Gore Research Center, P.O. Box 193, MTSU, Murfreesboro TN 37132
Collection Name	Middle Tennessee Oral History Collection
Contributing Institution	Albert Gore Research Center, Middle Tennessee State University
Digital Publisher	Digital Initiatives, James E. Walker Library, Middle Tennessee State University
Identifying Number	MT2000.019
Date created	2009-05-01